Wednesday, December 2, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Ommkaltoum Omas

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Ommkaltou and her supervisor Dr. Steven Wang. Candidate: Ommkaltou Omas Title: Deficiency and Ambiguity of Low Degrees Permutation Polynomials Date: January 8, 2016 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Ommkaltoum Omas, B. of Education, Al Ghabal Al Garbi Univ, 2008... More

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Algebra Seminar

Title: Optimal control on SO(3) Date: Friday, November 20, 2015 Time: 2:30 p.m. Room: HP 4369 Carleton University Abstract: Euler proved in 1776 that every rotation of a 3-dimensional body can be realized as a sequence of three rotations around two given axes. If we allow sequences of an arbitrary length, such a decomposition... More

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar

Speaker: Ming Su (Nankai University) Title: Decomposing Approach for Error Vectors of k-Error Linear Complexity of Certain Periodic Sequences Date: Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 Time: 11:00 a.m. Room: HP 4369 Carleton University Abstract: The k-error linear complexity of periodic sequences is an important index for stability. By using an interesting... More

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar

Speaker: David Thomson (Army Cyber Institute) Title: Multidimensional Sudoku-inspired combinatorial arrays Date: Monday, Oct. 26, 2015 Time: 11:00 a.m. Room: HP 4351, Carleton University ABSTRACT: (Joint work with Melissa Huggan, Gary Mullen and Brett Stevens) This talk deals with various constructions of combinatorial hypercubes inspired by... More

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar

Speaker: Mohammad Bardestani (University of Ottawa) Title: Oscillatory integrals and chromatic numbers of infinite graphs Date: October 9, 2015 Time: 2:00 pm Room: HP 4351, Carleton University ABSTRACT: For a field F and a quadratic form Q defined on an n-dimensional vector space V over F, let G_Q, called the quadratic graph associated to... More

Monday, September 21, 2015

Upcoming Research Talks

Thursday September 24th there will be 3 short talks in Statistics given starting at 4 p.m. The talks will be held accessible to a wide audience (not just statisticians!) and will be held here at Carleton in Canal 2104. They are being sponsored by the Statistical Society of Ottawa and the Statistical Society of... More

Thursday, September 10, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Ebenezer Ntienjem

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Ebenezer and his supervisor Dr. Saban Alaca and co-supervisor Dr. Ayse Alaca. Candidate: Ebenezer Ntienjem Title: Evaluation of the Convolution Sums $\overset{}{\underset{\alpha l+\beta m=n}{\sum}}\sigma(l)\sigma(m)$, where  $(\alpha,\beta)$ is in $\{(1,14), (2,7),  (1,26), (2,13), (1,28), (4,7),... More

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Mada Altiary

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Mada and her supervisor Dr. Ayse Alaca. Candidate: Mada Altiary Title: Representations by Quaternary Quadratic Forms whose Coefficients are 1,2,5 and 10 When: September 11, 2015 Time: 3:30 p.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Mada Altiary, Bachelor of Science , King Abdulaziz Univ, 2009... More

Friday, August 28, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Jamilah Alanazi

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Jamilah and her supervisor Dr. Ayse Alaca. Candidate: Jamilah Alanazi Title: Representation by Quaternary Quadratic Forms whose Coefficients are 1, 2, 7 & 14 When: September 11, 2015 Time: 5:00 p.m.. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Jamilah Alanazi, Bachelor of Science, King Faisal... More

Friday, August 14, 2015

New Grad Student and TA Orientation

Start the year off right by attending our New Student Graduate Orientation on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 starting at 11:45 AM! The best way to transition to your new adventure with the School of Mathematics and Statistics is to join us for our series of talks with Faculty, Administrators, Graduate students and come and... More

Thursday, August 13, 2015

PhD Thesis Examination – Jason Crann

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Jason and his supervisor Dr. Matthias Neufang and his co-supervisor Mostafa Mbekhta Candidate: Jason Crann Title: Homological Manifestations of quantum group duality When: August 6, 2015 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: Fields Institute, Toronto, Ontario CANDIDATE: Jason Crann, Master of Science, Carleton... More

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

PhD Thesis Examination – Ahalya Sivathayalan

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Ahalya and her supervisor Dr. Patrick Farrell and co-supervisor Dr. Daniel Krewski. Candidate: Ahalya Sivathayalan Title: Statistical Properties of the Signal-to-Noise Crossover Dose Based on the Hill model as a Point of Departure for Health Risk Assessment When: October 5, 2015 Time: 1:30 p.m. Location:... More

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Sangook Kim

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Sangook and his supervisor Dr. Sanjoy Sinha. Candidate: Sangook Kim Title: Methods for analyzing longitudinal binary data with missing responses When: September 4, 2015 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 3230B CANDIDATE: Sangook Kim, Bac of Mathematics (Honours), Carleton University, 2010... More

Friday, July 17, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Alia Alkhathami

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Alia and her supervisor Dr. Sanjoy Sinha. Candidate: Alia Alkhathami Title: Score tests for testing homogeneity of recurrent event times using frailty models When: August 28, 2015 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 3230B CANDIDATE: Alia Alkhathami, Master of Science, Carleton University,... More

Monday, July 13, 2015

PhD Thesis Examination – Katrina Rogers-Stewart

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Katrina and her supervisor Dr. Patrick Farrell. Candidate: Katrina Rogers-Stewart Title: Dose-response Modeling for Ordinal Outcome Data When: July 29, 2015 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Katrina Rogers-Stewart, Bachelor of Mathematics, Carleton University, 2004, Master... More

Monday, July 6, 2015

The Fields-TIMC Workshop

July 8 - 11, 2015 Room 4351 HP. This is a focused workshop on three topics in the area of finite fields and their applications: 1) Curves, functions fields and their codes; 2) Special functions over finite fields; 3) Finite geometries and codes. These were chosen due to their mix of mathematical rigour and... More

Monday, June 29, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Melissa Huggan

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Melissa and her supervisor Dr. Brett Stevens! Candidate: Melissa Huggan Title: Impartial Intersection Restriction Games When: July, 17, 2015 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Melissa Huggan, Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours), Carleton University, 2013, Bachelor of Arts... More

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Alexandr Diaz-Papkovich

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Alexandr and his supervisor, Dr. Shirley Mills. Candidate: Alexandr Diaz-Papkovich Title: Data Mining the Play-by-Play: Assessing and Applying NHL Performance Metrics Using Statistical Methods When: April 29, 2015 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Alexandr Diaz-Papkovich,... More

Monday, April 20, 2015

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker:  Peter E. Caines (McGill University) Title:  Mean Field Game Control Theory: Introduction and Recent Results Date:  Friday, April 24, 2015 Time:  3:30-4:30 (coffee starting at 3:00) Location:  HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT: The complexity of large population multi-agent competitive and cooperative stochastic... More

Thursday, April 9, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Nikolina Beg

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Nikolina and her supervisor Dr. Jason Nielsen. Candidate: Nikolina Beg Title: Model Based Penalized Smoothing for Panel Data Under a Markov Assumption When: April 30, 2015 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Nikolina Beg, Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours), Carleton University,... More

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

MSc Thesis Examination – Olga Kosta

Successfully defended. Congratulations Olga and her supervisor Dr. Natalia Stepanova! Candidate: Olga Kosta Title: Efficient Density Estimation Using Fejer-Type Kernel Functions When: April 29, 2015 Time: 10:30 a.m.. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 3230B CANDIDATE: Olga Kosta, Bachelor of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, 2010... More

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

End of Term Joint Colloquium, Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Date:  Friday, April 10, 2015 Place:  HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University Times:  2:00-3:00 p.m. - Don Dawson (Carleton University) 3:00-3:30 p.m. - Coffee break (Reception) 3:30-4:30 p.m. - Garth Dales (Lancaster University)            **Please see below for more details on both talks and speakers**... More

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

PhD Thesis Examination – Christopher Gravel

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Christopher and his supervisor Dr. Patrick Farrell. Candidate: Christopher Gravel Title: On the Correction for Misclassification Bias in Electronic Health Data Using Validation Sample Approaches When: April 28, 2015 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Christopher Gravel, Master... More

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Anton Izosimov (University of Toronto) Title: Free multidimensional rigid body and algebraic curves Date: Friday, March 13, 2015 Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University Abstract: It is a classical result of Euler that the rotation of a torque-free three-dimensional rigid body about the short or the long... More

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Peter Glynn (Stanford University) Title: Convergence to Equilibrium for Queueing Models Date: Friday, March 6, 2015 Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.; Coffee/tea will start at 3:00 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University Abstract: We will discuss, in some detail, the rate of convergence to equilibrium for one-dimensional reflected... More

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Joint Colloquium: Carleton University – University of Ottawa

Speaker: Paul Bourgade (Courant Institute) Title: From the mesoscopic to microscopic scale in random matrix theory Date: Thursday, March 5, 2015 Time: 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Place: University of Ottawa (B005) Abstract:  Eugene Wigner has envisioned that the distributions of the eigenvalues of large Gaussian random matrices are new paradigms for... More

Friday, February 27, 2015

Probability & Statistics Seminar

Speaker: Keith O'Rourke - Ottawa, Ontario Title: Can we get a mathematical framework for applying statistics that better facilitates communication with non-statisticians as well as helps statisticians avoid getting “precise answers to the wrong questions*”? Date: Friday, March, 6, 2015 Time: 1:30-2:30 p.m. Place: HP 4351 (Macphail room),... More

Friday, February 20, 2015

Colloquium Talk

Speaker:  Peter Glynn (Stanford University) Title:  Convergence to Equilibrium for Queueing Models Date:  March 6, 2015 Time:  3:30-4:30 p.m. Place:  HP 4351 (MacPhail Room), Carleton University ABSTRACT:  We will discuss, in some detail, the rate of convergence to equilibrium for one-dimensional reflected Brownian motion (RBM) with negative... More

Friday, September 12, 2014

PhD Thesis Examination – Mamadou Diallo

Successfully defended. Congratulations Mamadou and his supervisor Dr. J.N.K. Rao. Candidate: Mamadou Diallo Title: Small Area Estimation: Skew-Normal Distributions and Time Series When: October 23, 2014 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4325 CANDIDATE: Mamadou Diallo, Master of Science, University of Laval, 2006 EXAMINATION... More

Thursday, September 4, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Abdulaziz and his supervisor Dr. Mohamedou Ould Haye. Candidate: Abdulaziz Dahir Title: Conditional Density Estimation and Density Forecast with Applications When: September 10, 2014 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Abdulaziz Dahir, Bachelor or Mathematics, Carleton... More

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended.  Congratulations Xin and his supervisor Dr. Natalia Stepanova. Candidate: Xin Cui Title: Optimal Component Selection in High Dimensions When: September 5, 2014 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4325 CANDIDATE: Xin Cui, Bachelor of Science, University of Manitoba, 2012 EXAMINATION NOTICE... More

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended.  Congratulations to Mona and her co-supervisors, Drs. Mehrdad Kalantar and Matthias Neufang. Candidate: Mona Meghdari Miardan Title: Error Correction of Quantum Channels When: September 5, 2014 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 5345 CANDIDATE: Mona Meghdari Miardan, Bachelor of Science, Tehran University,... More

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

PhD Thesis Examination – Malgorzata Winiszewska

Successfully defended. Congratulations Malgorzata and her co-supervisors, Drs. J.N.K. Rao and Sanjoy Sinha! Candidate: Malgorzata Winiszewska Title: Statistical Inference in the Presence of Missing Data When: August 21, 2014 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Herzberg Building Room: 5345 CANDIDATE: Malgorzata Winiszewska, Master of Science, Carleton... More

Thursday, July 10, 2014

MSc Thesis Examination

Successfully defended.  Congratulations to Stephanie and her supervisor Dr. Shirley Mills. Candidate: Stephanie Nahmias Title: Empirical study of performance of classification and clustering algorithms on binary data with real-world applications When: July 15, 2014 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Herzberg Building Room: 4351 CANDIDATE: Stephanie... More

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Medals at Convocation – 2014

On Tuesday, June 10th at convocation, four students in Mathematics and Statistics received medals for outstanding academic achievement: ARTHUR MEHTA (B. Math, Fast Track) received the President's Medal, awarded annually to the student with the highest standing in a general or major degree program of studies. JIE XU (Statistics, Honours) earned... More

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